Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Academy Award Winner Helen Caldicott to speak at National Press Club Today

Location: Zenger Room

The Ukraine Crisis: Is Nuclear Conflict Likely?
Washington, DC – Australia’s Dr. Helen Caldicott – a longtime
advocate of citizen action to address nuclear and environmental crisis,
founding President of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a 1985
Nobel Peace Prize nominee – believes the current crisis in Ukraine is
evidence that the Cold War has not only returned and could well morph
into a nuclear exchange between Russia and the U.S.
For the first time in recent history, Russia and the U.S. are in a
state of confrontation. Both nations have recently conducted nuclear war
games, and some reports suggest that the state of alert of their
nuclear arsenals has been raised.
At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on Wednesday,
October 8, Caldicott will argue that the Cold War has not only returned,
but is heating up. The nuclear exchange she fears would result in ozone
depletion, radioactive contamination, massive fire storms and a nuclear
winter. Even without a nuclear confrontation, Ukraine hosts 15 nuclear
power plants. Conventional warfare could cause several of them to melt
down.
This Newsmakers news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Wednesday,
October 8 in the National Press Club’s Zenger Room, on the 13th Floor
of the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington DC 20045.
Like all Newsmakers events, the news conference is open to
credentialed media and club members, free of charge. No advance
registration is required.
Contact:
Tony Gallo NPC Newsmakers Event Host
202 -544-6973, agallo2368@verizon.net